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BOMBAY FURNITURE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 185 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOMBAY

FURNITURE  . " Bombay blackwood furniture " is a
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term applied to a rather extensive class of articles manufactured in the city of Bombay and in the towns of
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Surat and Ahmedabad in India . The wood used is Shisham or blackwood (Dalbergia), a hard-grained dark-coloured
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timber which with proper treatment assumes a beautiful natural
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polish . Much of the so-called Bombay furniture is clumsy and inelegant in form, defects which it is suggested by experts, like
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Sir George Birdwood, it owes to the circumstance that the
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original
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models were Dutch . Some of the smaller articles, such as flower stands, small tables, and ornamental stands, are, however, of exceedingly graceful
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contour, and good examples are highly prized by collectors . The
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carving at its best is lace-like in character, and apart from its inherent beauty is attractive on account of the ingenuity shown by the worker in adapting his design in detail to the purpose of the article he is fashioning . The workmen who manufacture the most
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artistic Bombay furniture are a
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special class with inherited traditions . Often a man knows only one design, which has been transmitted to him by his
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father, who in his turn had had it from his father before him . In
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recent years under
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European auspices efforts have been made with a certain measure of success to modernize the industry by introducing portions of the native
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work into furniture of Western design . In the main, however, the conventional patterns are still adhered to . " Bombay boxes " are inlaid in geometrical patterns on wood . The
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Inlaying materials consist of the wire, sandal wood, sapan wood, ebony, ivory and stags' horns, and the effect produced by the combination of minute pieces of these various substances is altogether
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peculiar and distinctive .

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